Quote Originally Posted by worldmaker View Post
3 . In this editing I replaced any references made to any character set other than "latin1_general_ci".
If your store's products, categories, customers, ez-pages, etc, use ANY non-english-characters, then DO NOT DO THAT, else you'll find all your database content will contain odd annoying symbols where those characters were originally found.

If your database contains strictly english-only characters and no extended-character symbols, (ie: not even TM or (c) symbols), then the raw data-hacking approach you described may work if executed perfectly.

USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION!!!!